Sometime around 2014 I purchased (2) products. A new Trek Mountain Bike and a Pebble Smartwatch. At the time Pebble was the first Smartwatch of its kind. When I purchased my mountain bike being able to switch songs, see who’s calling, reading a text message was almost impossible with either looking at my wrist or taking my phone out of my pocket. Also another key feature of the smartwatch was I could track speed, miles and time while riding.

I first tried to just attach the watch to the handle bars which failed, then I tried to prop something so it would hold the watch in place. I went on Amazon and figured someone had to have already created this product and sure enough there was a bunch. I ordered several different brands. The best one and cheapest solutions was the Suunto Bike Mount.

Everything worked perfect it sat on the handle bars nicely. It was easy to remove and attach the Smartwatch. Around 2014 I think the Pebble was the first Smartwatch, it’s now 2017 and there are a ton of great options available for smart watches with even more features. Hopefully this post helps you with what I wanted to achieve in 2014.

Here is my entire build out of the RetroPie PiGrrl Zero Plus (WITH Sound) Retro Handled Gaming System. What an awesome and a fun project to build; since my time is limited this took about 3-4 days to fully complete. I did mess up in the beginning when I went to remove the the GPIO pins that come preinstalled. I actually removed 2 pad’s from the board and I had to retrace the entire pad’s back to the build (this costed me a day in build time).

The device itself is pretty nice the battery time lasts about 1-3 hours depending on usage the buttons are clicky I actually went and installed soft buttons of A,B,X,Y buttons and kept the clicky buttons on the DPAD. If you notice once I screwed down the screen the screws provided with the 3D printed build I over turned them causing the screws to come out of the plastic which pissed me off a lot. I was able to sand the plastic down which made it less noticeable.
This can play almost anything from Arcade, Atari, Super Nintendo, Nintendo. Almost everything up til N64 (I tested playing Nintendo 64 ROMs it loaded them just could not handle them on the Pi Zero).

Another Windows batch file I wrote up that will delete all folders and files with (SAMPLE) in the file or folder name.

Please note you can download the full .bat file below.

'On Error Resume Next
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ShowSubFolders objFSO.GetFolder("E:")
Sub ShowSubFolders(Folder)
For Each file In Folder.Files
Set objCurFile = objFSO.GetFile(file)
If Instr(ucase(objCurFile.Name), UCase("sample")) Then objCurFile.Delete
On Error Resume Next
For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
ShowSubFolders Subfolder
Next
End Sub